Program Review
Name of Unit:
Name of person preparing document:
Date of unit meeting to review document:
Reviewer Name:
Reviewer Position:
Note: Include when possible all members of the unit, a student
or other client, and others outside the unit in the preparation
and review of this document.
Please respond to the following questions. Please consult the
Integrated Planning and Program Review Handbook for detailed
instructions.
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5.
6.
Assume the reader doesn’t know anything about your program.
Please describe your program, including the following:
a.
Organization (including staffing and structure)
b.
Mission, or primary purpose
c.
Whom you serve (including demographics)
d.
What kind of services you provide
e.
How you provide them
What external factors have a significant impact on your
program? Please include the following as appropriate:
a.
Budgetary constraints or opportunities
b.
Service area demographics
c.
Requirements of four-year institutions
d.
Requirements of prospective employers
e.
Job market
f.
Developments in the field (both current and future)
g.
Competition from other institutions
h.
Requirements imposed by regulations, policies,
standards, and other mandates
Please attach a list of all the SLOs/SAOs related to your
program. In addition, please list any other quantitative
or qualitative measures you have chosen to gauge your
program’s effectiveness.
Please summarize the results of each measure you have
applied, including the results of any assessment of
SLOs/SAOs you have done since your last program review.
Reflect on those results. What did you learn from them,
and what improvements have you implemented or will you
implement based on them? Be sure to include your
SLOs/SAOs.
Please discuss your program’s performance on each component
of the applicable evaluation rubric. If you have already
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Committee Approved: May 17, 2010
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covered an item in your answer to Question 5, just refer to
that response here, rather than repeating it.
a. Instructional Program Health Evaluation Rubric
i.
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
ii.
Needs-Based Curriculum
iii.
Scheduling Matrix
iv.
Course Retention Rate
v.
Course Success Rate
vi.
Full-Time/Part-Time Faculty Ratio
vii.
WSCH/FTEF Ratio
viii.
Fill rate
ix.
Alignment with CHC Mission, Vision, and Goals
x.
(Goals and Objectives are covered in your ThreeYear Action Plan; do not address them here.)
b.
Non-instructional Program Effectiveness Evaluation
Rubric
i.
Service Area and/or Student Learning Outcomes
Process
ii.
Additional Program Effectiveness Measures
iii.
Program Effectiveness Criteria
iv.
Innovation and Service Enhancement
v.
Pattern of Service
vi.
Partnerships
vii.
Alignment with CHC Mission, Vision, and Goals
viii.
(Goals and Objectives are covered in your ThreeYear Action Plan; do not address them here.)
In answering both the questions below, please include all
the areas in the following list, along with any other areas
you regard as significant. If you have already covered an
item in your answer to Question 6, just refer to that
response here, rather than repeating it.
 Representativeness of population served
 Alternative modes and schedules of delivery
 Partnerships (internal and external)
 Implementation of best practices
 Efficiency in operations
 Efficiency in resource use
 Staffing
 Participation in shared governance (e.g., do unit members
feel they participate effectively in planning and
decision-making?)
 Professional development and training
 Group dynamics (e.g., how well do unit members work
together?)
 Innovation
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8.
9.
10.
 Compliance with applicable mandates
a. What is going well and why?
b. What is not going well and why?
Tell us your vision: Where would you like your program to
be three years from now?
Reflect on your responses to all the previous questions.
Complete the Three-Year Action Plan, entering the specific
program goals and objectives you have formulated to
maintain or enhance your strengths, or to address
identified weaknesses. Assign an overall priority to each
goal and each objective. In addition, enter any resources
required to achieve each objective.
Finally, describe how your mission, vision, and goals align
with and contribute to the college’s mission, vision, and
goals, as specified in the CHC Educational Master Plan.
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Committee Approved: May 17, 2010
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